New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted searches at 40 locations across India as part of a money laundering investigation into alleged irregularities in the Delhi Excise Policy.
This is the second round of raids being conducted by the federal agency in this case after September 6. previously the raids were conducted at about 45 locations across the country.
The raids are being carried out at the premises of liquor businessmen, distributors, and supply chain networks in Telangana’s Nellore and reportedly some other cities in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Delhi-NCR.
Manish Sisodia, the deputy chief minister of Delhi, and a few bureaucrats were named as accused in a CBI’s FIR, which is the basis of the ED case alleging money laundering in the excise policy. The excise policy has now been reversed.
Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, lashed out at the raids, telling a press conference that the CBI and ED were “unnecessarily troubling everyone” and that if this went on, the country will not be able to go forward, addressing a press conference.
Kejriwal said, “One of their (BJP) leaders says that it is a scam of Rs 8,000 crore, the LG says it is a scam of Rs 144 crore and the CBI FIR says there is a scam of Rs 1 crore. I don’t understand what the liquor scam is.”
The CBI had conducted raids in the case on August 19, covering the Delhi residences of Sisodia, IAS officer and former Delhi excise commissioner, Arava Gopi Krishna, and 19 other locations across seven states and Union Territories.
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